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Single vehicle wreck causes traffic backup on I-40

The Tennessee Highway Patrol said no one was seriously injured in a single vehicle accident that backed up traffic on I-40 eastbound for a few hours Friday afternoon.

According to the report of Trooper Lucas Dailey, the accident occurred about 3 p.m. near the 280 mile marker (the Baxter exit) as 20-year-old Aaron Paul Wilson of Rickman was driving a 1999 Ford, pulling a trailer, eastbound on the highway.

"The driver felt the trailer shaking as he was merging into lane #2 (and) slowed down to regain control of the trailer," the report said. "At which point the trailer swung around the left side of (the) vehicle causing (it) to spin around facing west."

Wilson's vehicle ran off the roadway and rolled over onto the driver’s side in the ditch facing west, the report said.

Wilson was not injured, but a passenger in the vehicle, identified as Murphy Lane Elkins, 21, of Cookeville, did suffer a slight injury. According to the report, he was not transported to the hospital for treatment.